$1 million lottery ticket sold in NC but winner hasn’t come forward. Time running out
A lottery ticket worth $1 million was sold in North Carolina — but no one has come forward to claim the prize.
Now, the winner has days left to cash in on the lucky ticket, which expires Sunday, May 7, according to the N.C. Education Lottery.
“Search everywhere you keep your tickets and double-check any you have,” Mark Michalko, executive director of the lottery, wrote in a news release.
Time is running out for someone to get richer after the million-dollar ticket was sold at Gas Center 5 in Wilmington. While at the convenience store, the lottery winner spent $2 to play the Powerball game, officials said.
Though the ticket missed out on the bigger $2.04 billion jackpot prize for the delayed Nov. 7 drawing, it still beat 1-in-11.6 million odds to win big. The winning numbers were 10-33-41-47-56-10.
In North Carolina, winners have about six months to come forward. But as of about 9:40 a.m. May 1, the big prize was still unclaimed, lottery officials told McClatchy News in an email.
Because the ticket is set to expire over a weekend, the deadline for the lucky player to cash in at the lottery’s headquarters in Raleigh is 5 p.m. on Monday, May 8, officials said.
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This story was originally published May 1, 2023 at 11:05 AM with the headline "$1 million lottery ticket sold in NC but winner hasn’t come forward. Time running out."
